This rectangle of canvas, pitched like a sail at sea

"Thousands of spectators, massed along the quay, experienced this unique spectacle. At the moment when Bonaparte confronts a terrifying storm, aboard the frail bark whose makeshift sail is fashioned from his tricolored flag, the wind whipped up over Antibes. Menacing clouds gathered densely in the sky above, and the abruptly louder sound of waves crashing along the shore accompanied the images. As in a Magritte painting, with one canvas framed by a real sea and genuine storm clouds, each spectator had the Sensurround-style sensation of knowing what Bonaparte felt as he crossed the Mediterranean."

-Glenn Myrent & Georges Langlois, Henri Langlois, first citizen of cinema (trans. Lisa Nesselson)